And...that's it for this mini course on media literacy and fact checking. These are new skills you've learned:

To investigate the source, person, or organization:

• Just add Wikipedia
• Search Google News for information about organizations and individuals

To find trusted coverage in order to verify a claim:

• Scan Google News for relevant stories
• Use known fact-checking sites
• Use reverse image search to find out if a picture is real

To trace claims to their original source and context:

• Click through links to find the original source
• Use reverse image search to trace photoshopped images

Remember that fact-checking is a habit. When you feel strong emotion — happiness, anger, pride, vindication — and that emotion pushes you to share a “fact” with others, STOP. Above all, it’s these things that you must fact-check.

Thank you for completing this course!

Need help? Contact Kelli Herm, your librarian, at [email protected].

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